CHANNEL RENDEVOUS UNDER BALLOON UNBRELLA - Protected from strafing Nazi planes by barrage balloons, a Coast Guard Tank Landing Ship (left), forward passes a load of mechanized fighting vehicles to the flat top of a "Rhino" in the English Channel during the height of the invasion of the French Coast. The "Rhinos" slogged through the surf to unload their cargos on the beach.
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